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Event    From 1686  To 1786

May Fair

Categories: Commerce

Event

The annual 15 day May Fair used to be held at the Haymarket but in 1686 it moved to the site of Curzon Street and Shepherd Market. About 100 years later it was suppressed by the local residents, mainly nobility, who objected to it.

Large sections of this and the surrounding area, now known as Mayfair, has been owned by the Grosvenor family since 1677.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
May Fair

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May Fair

On this site stood the historic May Fair.

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Squadron HG

Squadron HG

121 Kentish Town Road.

Group, Armed Forces, Commerce

1 memorial
Daddy Vego

Daddy Vego

Barrington Adams, aka Daddy Vego - the first Jamaican to set up a static sound system, the Peoples Sound System, at the Notting Hill Carnival. In 1988 he founded his shop, the People’s Sound Recor...

Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Jamaica

1 memorial
Henry Spicer (stationery)

Henry Spicer (stationery)

Born Islington into the stationery family. Trustee of Islington Union Chapel.  MP for Islington South. 1885-6. Henry Spicer was the eldest of the ten children of Henry S. J. Spicer (1801-1877) a...

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
M. & W. Mack Ltd

M. & W. Mack Ltd

Trader at Covent Garden Market at its original site.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial